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Huge Rise in Hackers Submitting Vulnerabilities During #COVID19
2021 Hacker Report.
The bug bounty platform noted that hackers ramped up their workload in response to the digital shift during COVID-19, with 38% of those surveyed stating they have spent more time hacking since the start of the pandemic.
There was also an increased focus on emerging threats last year. This includes security weaknesses linked to cloud adoption, with misconfiguration vulnerabilities rising by 310%, while submissions for both improper access control and privilege escalation went up by 53%.
Additionally, hackers increasingly targeted different types of technologies in 2020. This included a 694% growth in hackers saying they spend time hacking APIs, a 663% rise in those hacking Android and a 1000% increase in hackers focusing on IoT compared to 2019.
Significant jump in number of hackers reporting vulnerabilities to companies
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of hackers reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to enterprises has increased by nearly two-thirds
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The number of white hat hackers who find security vulnerabilities and warn companies about them, usually to earn a bug bounty, increased by 63% in 2020, according to the latest annual
Hacker report.
The number of ethical hackers reporting bugs or vulnerabilities to enterprises has increased by 143% since 2018, demonstrating that hackers and IT security teams are working together much more frequently to manage cyber threats.